Wagner Mazda in Fostoria has been sold to William Gaietto, John Coppus and Stephen Hook, and is now Mazda Direct. The dealership will be increasing its new car inventory by 30 percent to 60, and doubling its used car inventory to 60. Meanwhile, Wagner Ford in Carey will be moving into a new, bigger location by year- end. Construction of a new 13,000-square-foot Wagner Ford building at 1200 S. Vance St., Carey, will start soon near the U.S. 23/Ohio 15 highway and completed by year end.
Findlay Police continue to investigate the death of 56 year Randy Grose who died at this Sherry Street residence Saturday. Police are calling the death suspicious, but have not confirmed Grose as the victim because of the on-going investigation. Physical trauma to the body was reported. An autopsy was conducted yesterday with the results pending.
Karim Baroudi has been named as health commissioner for Hancock Public Health, and Dr. Nathaniel Ratnasamy was appointed medical director. Hancock Public Health was formed when the Hancock County and Findlay health departments merged at the beginning of this year. Baroudi comes to Hancock County from the Ohio Department of Health, where he most recently served as the Northwest Ohio Food Safety Program specialist. Ratnasamy is currently a member of the medical staff of Blanchard Valley Hospital.
Bowling Green State University will name Bob Moosbrugger its next athletics director, according to a news release late Monday night. Moosbrugger, a 1994 BGSU graduate, has been at San Diego State since 2007. His most recent title was the deputy director of athletics/chief operating officer. Moosbrugger was a two-time letter winner on the baseball team at Bowling Green State University, where he earned his degree in sport management.
Tiffin's City Council has begun to take steps to sell bonds to fund the city's portion of costs for the proposed joint justice center and to pay for the city's outstanding sanitary sewer system improvement bonds. Ordinances that provide for the issuance and sale of bonds had their first readings at Monday’s meeting.
The Ohio Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to discuss a proposed wall along the east side of U.S. 68/ Ohio 15 to potentially reduce noise in the area of Western Avenue in Findlay that was requested by residents. In response to the request, which was made in summer 2015, ODOT completed a noise analysis. The results of the analysis, and the noise wall process, will be presented at the meeting. At the conclusion of the meeting, ODOT will provide affected property owners the opportunity to vote for or against the construction of a noise wall. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Chamberlin Hill Intermediate School’s gymnasium, 600 W. Yates Ave.



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